LaunchAI vs. Paperless Parts
Your shop already knows how to quote the job. LaunchAI puts that process to work automatically: reading the RFQ, using your estimating tools and rates, building the quote and sending it. Paperless Parts offers a dedicated manufacturing quoting platform. Choose LaunchAI to automate the process your team already knows.
- RequestPart file + print · 60 brackets
- Work to completeShop method + rates
- Finished resultQuote tied to the revision
Read this example
- Request
- A customer sends a part file and print for 60 brackets with a specified material and finish.
- Work to complete
- Read the requirements, use the shop’s estimating method, apply its rates and prepare the customer quote.
- Finished result
- An itemized quote tied to the requested part revision, quantity and finishing requirements.
Start here if…
For shops deciding whether to change their estimating platform or automate the process they already use.
Compare the quoting workflow
| What to compare | LaunchAI | Paperless Parts |
|---|---|---|
| Core approach | Automates the shop’s quoting job across the applications your team already uses. | Centralizes manufacturing quoting in a dedicated platform. |
| Part costing | Runs your estimating workflow with your tools, costing method and shop-specific pricing rules. | Analyzes part geometry and applies shop-specific costing and pricing logic. |
| RFQ information | Reads the required inputs and carries the part revision, material, finish and quantities into the estimating steps. | Provides AI features for extracting requirements from prints and quote packages. |
| Business systems | Operates your application screens to move the job from RFQ intake through quote delivery and configured follow-up. | Offers connections to ERP, CRM and other business tools. |
Why choose LaunchAI?
Keep your shop’s estimating method
Use the estimating application, cost rules and rates your team has developed. LaunchAI carries the required inputs through that process.
Take the RFQ through to delivery
Connect request intake, estimating, quote creation and sending in one configured workflow. Complete requests can run without a person moving each step forward.
Carry the job details through
Keep the supplied part revision, material, finish and quantity tied to the quote. Use your clarification rules when required information is missing.
Let your team move on to the next job
Less RFQ administration
Let the agent carry the requested details into the estimating workflow.
Your shop knowledge stays in use
Keep the rates and estimating method your team has developed.
From estimate to sent quote
Include quote generation and delivery in the job you hand off to the agent.
Common questions
Why choose LaunchAI for a manufacturing shop?
Choose LaunchAI when you want to automate a repeatable quoting process using your current estimating tools and shop rules. The agent can take on the work from RFQ intake through a sent quote.
Can we keep our estimating software and rates?
Yes. Configure the workflow around the software, cost method and rate sources your shop uses. LaunchAI operates that process rather than requiring your team to rebuild its pricing in a new platform.
Can manufacturing quotes run fully automatically?
Yes. Set up intake, estimating, quote creation and sending as one workflow. Complete requests run end to end. Missing requirements and other exceptions follow the handling you define.
Where does Paperless Parts fit?
Paperless Parts provides manufacturing quoting, geometry-based costing and AI-assisted requirement extraction in its platform. LaunchAI focuses on running the shop’s existing estimating and quoting process across its tools.
Connect the next step
One quoting process can span several workflows. Explore the parts that fit yours.
Your next quote. Already handled.
From the first request to the finished quote, in the software you already use.
no new system. no integrations. ↗